Parents,permission, and possibility: Young women,college, and imagined futures in Gujarat,India     

《Geoforum》2017

This article advances critical geographies of youth through examining the spatiality implicit in the imagined futures of young women in rural India. Geographers and other scholars of youth have begun to pay more attention to the interplay between young people’s past, present, and imagined futures. Within this emerging body of scholarship the role of the family and peer group in influencing young people’s orientations toward the future remain underexamined. Drawing on eleven months of ethnographic fieldwork, my research focuses on a first generation of college-going young women from socioeconomically marginalized backgrounds in India’s westernmost state of Gujarat. I draw on the “possible selves” theoretical construct in order to deploy a flexible conceptual framework that links imagined post-educational trajectories with motivation to act in the present. In tracing the physical movement of these young women as they navigate and complete college, my analysis highlights the ways in which particular kinds of spaces and spatial arrangements facilitate and limit intra- and inter-generational contact, and the extent to which this affects young women’s conceptions of the future. I conclude by considering the wider implications of my research for ongoing debates surrounding youth transitions, relational geographies of age, and education in the Global South.  相似文献   

对目前我国高校非开挖技术教育的思考     

刘建成 《岩土钻凿工程》2012,(2):125-126

非开挖技术是一项新兴技术,自非开挖技术引入我国以来,发展迅速。但我国高校的非开挖技术教育发展却显得相对缓慢。通过对我国高校非开挖技术教育现状的分析,初步探讨了我国高校非开挖技术教育水平提升的有关问题。  相似文献   

The pulse of citizenship: reflections on Griffith Taylor and ‘nation‐planning‘     

J.M. Powell 《The Australian geographer》1997,28(1):39-52

This exercise in a type of applied historiography begins by annotating aspects of reform in Western education from the 1880s to the 1930s, an interval which exhibits the responses of ‘new’ subjects to political and social demands for improved civics education, and encompasses the inauguration of a recognisably ‘academic’ geography in Australia. Designedly, since the nominated period also incorporates the early life and career of pioneering geographer Griffith Taylor, the discussion probes beneath the strata of obfuscatory generalisation to relate one individual's engagement with the vortex of change. More specifically, it extracts a few lessons from Taylor's approach to ‘Nation‐Planning’ to suggest an appropriate orientation to current reformism in Australian education. It is argued that, while this trend questions the civic utility of established disciplines, it has been badly served by a disturbing ignorance of the social and intellectual heritage of the subjects under challenge.  相似文献   

Review essay: Imagining the techno-capitalist future(s) of higher education     

《Geoforum》2016

Higher Education is frequently said to be in a time of disruption, and narratives of how that disruption will play out have become a cottage industry. This essay critically reviews four such narratives – two journalistic works, one corporatist, techno-capitalist vision of the unbundling of Higher Education in America, and one critical, scholarly defense of the university as a center of critical thinking. The essay reflects on what the latter text can tell us about how this coming disruption can be collectively managed by education professionals.  相似文献   

The Application of GIS in Education Administration: Protecting Students from Hazardous Roads     

Fatemah Admadi Nejad Masouleh  Yuji Murayama  Todd Wendell Rho'Dess 《Transactions in GIS》2009,13(1):105-123

Though enrolment by proximity is an official educational policy in Iran, the lack of clearly defined school attendance areas has resulted in an informal open enrolment system where parents may choose public schools outside their residential areas. Two major consequences of parental choice are longer commutes to schools and increased use of motor vehicle transport. To delineate school attendance areas for public female junior high schools in the city of Rasht in Northern Iran, this research used the multiplicatively weighted Voronoi diagram (MWVD) technique to construct school attendance areas. The approach was shown to be useful in developing countries like Iran where accident fatalities are not only disproportionately high but the public school system lacks sufficient educational diversity to offset the societal costs of opting out of neighbourhood schools. A GIS-based specialist package was used for constructing the proposed school attendance areas. Given the MWVD utility in demarcating spaces so that all journeys within them are closest to a chosen point, the research concluded that proposed school attendance areas can result in shorter and more convenient commutes on foot for students. This can eliminate the need to travel by vehicle for the overwhelming majority of students and thus make their journeys more convenient and safer.  相似文献   

Some Suggestions Concerning a Course of Study in Geography     

《The Journal of geography》2012,111(1):7-14

Abstract

Over the next decade or so, the National Assessment for Educational Progress in Geography and the Geographic Education Standards Project promise to give geography a new definition as a school subject. This will challenge the educational community to re-examine how geography is taught and learned across all the grade levels, K-12. If geography is to be perceived as an essential subject in preparing students for citizenship as adults, not only must its image change, but its content and the pedagogy that delivers it must be modified as well. To achieve those ends, new curricular models grounded in cogent and applicable research must develop through partnerships of teachers, teacher educators, learning theorists, and professional geographers.  相似文献   

Permafrost science and secondary education: direct involvement of teachers and students in field research     

Anna E. Klene  Frederick E. Nelson  John Nevins  Don Rogers  Nikolay I. Shiklomanov 《Geomorphology》2002,47(2-4)

Permafrost and periglacial geomorphology are absent from the science curriculum in most secondary schools in the United States. This is an unfortunate situation given the recent increases in development and environmental concerns in northern latitudes and high-mountain areas, and the interesting examples of basic scientific principles found in the history of research on periglacial geomorphology and permafrost. In 1997 and 1998, a University of Delaware research group studying permafrost and periglacial geomorphology in northern Alaska participated in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Teachers Experiencing the Antarctic and Arctic (TEA) Program. In each of these years, a high school teacher and a student traveled as part of the research team to the North Slope of Alaska. They learned about the landscape, collected active-layer thickness and temperature measurements, and assisted in data analysis. Results from studies of active-layer thickness variability and ground temperature contributed to a series of long-term observations and international research on the impacts of global climate change. Since their expeditions, the teachers have shared their experiences with their classrooms and communities in several ways, including public lectures and the Internet. Classroom activities are available to the public through the TEA web site (http://tea.rice.edu). This experience may heighten public awareness of permafrost and contribute to it becoming a useful part of the secondary curriculum.  相似文献   

学习的动力机制及其运用新探     

凌长明  贾明生 《广东海洋大学学报》2002,22(5):88-91

根据专业基础课的内容和教学特点 ,探讨了运用学习动机和学习效果的互动关系培养学习需求要的一般方法 ,提出了使恶性循环的互动关系转化为良性循环的特殊方法 ,并强调了教师在这种转变中的重要作用。  相似文献   

测绘卓越工程师素质培养方案研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

蒋廷臣  焦明连  董春来  王秀萍 《测绘科学》2014,39(9)

“卓越工程师教育培养计划”是促进高校培养出创新能力强、主动适应多样化和多元化社会和经济外部高级人才需求的一项新“质量工程”.文章根据调查研究和全球工程教育现状,为适应“卓越工程师教育培养计划”的要求,对测绘卓越工程师培养目标进行了研究,阐述了测绘卓越工程师应具备的素质,同时研究了具体培养方案.  相似文献   

林业高等教育在云南边疆少数民族地区的成效研究—以西南林学院为例     

王宏虬  刘兴东 《云南地理环境研究》2009,21(5):27-29,35

以西南林学院在云南边境少数民族地区工作的毕业生为研究对象,运用田野调查,采取访谈法、选择个案进行调查研究,从而得出高等林业教育对云南边境少数民族社会、经济的实际成效。从用人单位对毕业生的评价以及毕业生的自我评价中,找准高等林业教育在教育、教学、管理和服务等方面存在的不足,提出高等林业教育当前需要改进的工作：一是进一步加大课程体系和教学内容改革力度;二是要创新培养模式,提高学生综合素质;三是加强实验实习基地建设,培养实践能力。  相似文献